It’s Not the Average. It’s the Spikes.
Monitoring & Diversion identifies and redirects high-strength wastewater streams in real time, helping facilities reduce costs, stabilize operations, and improve compliance.
What Challenges Are You Facing?
Unpredictable Wastewater Spikes
Daily operations can create sudden increases in COD, BOD, and flow that overwhelm treatment systems and drive operational instability. Monitoring & Diversion identifies these spikes in real time and redirects high-strength streams before they impact the broader system.
Rising Surcharge & Hauling Costs
A small portion of wastewater often drives the majority of discharge fees, hauling expenses, and unnecessary treatment costs. By isolating and treating only the highest-strength streams, Monitoring & Diversion helps facilities reduce costs without overbuilding infrastructure
Compliance Risk & Permit Violations
Wastewater variability can lead to permit exceedances, inconsistent discharge quality, and increased shutdown risk. Real-time monitoring and automated diversion help stabilize wastewater profiles and improve compliance confidence.
Overbuilt or Inefficient Infrastructure
Many wastewater systems are designed to continuously handle peak conditions, leading to excessive energy use, sludge generation, and operating costs. Monitoring & Diversion reduces the burden on existing systems by removing the streams that create the greatest strain.
Limited Visibility into Wastewater Variability
Without real-time monitoring, facilities often lack insight into when high-strength events occur or what is driving operational disruptions. Monitoring & Diversion provides continuous visibility into wastewater conditions, helping operators make faster, data-driven decisions.
Existing Systems Struggling with Variability
Aerobic, MBR, and municipal systems may perform well under average conditions but struggle during high-strength events and production spikes. Monitoring & Diversion works alongside existing infrastructure to normalize flow conditions and improve overall system performance.
A Smarter Approach to Wastewater Management
Industrial wastewater isn’t static. Production changes, CIP cycles, product losses, and other operational events can create sudden spikes that increase costs, strain treatment systems, and introduce compliance risk.
Real-Time Visibility
Gain continuous insight into wastewater conditions before they become operational problems. Real-time monitoring provides a clear picture of flow, loading, and variability, helping operators understand exactly what’s happening within their system
Identify High-Strength Events
Pinpoint the wastewater streams that drive the majority of cost, risk, and treatment challenges. Monitoring & Diversion identifies spikes caused by CIP cycles, product loss, changeovers, and other operational events as they occur.
Automated Diversion Control
Respond to changing wastewater conditions without manual intervention. High-strength streams can be automatically redirected for targeted treatment, reducing the impact on downstream infrastructure and improving overall system stability.
Optimize Existing Infrastructure
Get more value from the treatment assets you already have. By removing the highest-strength loads before they reach your primary treatment system, facilities can reduce strain, improve performance, and avoid unnecessary capital investments.
Build a Smarter Treatment Strategy
Use real operational data to make informed wastewater decisions. Monitoring & Diversion creates a foundation for long-term optimization, whether your goal is reducing surcharges, improving compliance, expanding treatment capacity, or implementing advanced treatment technologies.
Real-time sensors are installed at the wet well to continuously track flow and wastewater strength. This creates visibility into when high-strength events occur and how often they impact the system.
Aquacycl analyzes the data to determine the threshold where wastewater spikes become costly or difficult to treat. This threshold defines which streams should continue to the existing system and which should be diverted.
When wastewater exceeds the defined threshold, automated controls redirect the high-strength stream away from the main flow. The remaining lower-strength wastewater continues to the existing system, reducing overload and variability.
Diverted wastewater is sent to the appropriate treatment pathway, including Aquacycl’s BETT® system when high-BOD treatment is needed.
This allows facilities to treat a smaller, more concentrated flow instead of overbuilding for the full volume.
The system continues collecting performance data to improve treatment strategy over time. Facilities gain better control, lower risk, and a clearer path to reducing hauling, surcharges, energy use, and sludge production.
Monitoring & Diversion At-a-Glance
Resources
Case Study
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